Globe or shade holder.



No. 650,038. Patented May 22, I900. .1. s. DUDLEY. GLOBE 0R SHADEHOLDER.

Application medoec. 19, 1899.) (No Model.)

' lmu r FNITED STATES PATENT Orrrcn.

JAMES GRIEVE DUDLEY, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

cross O'R'SHADE HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 650,038, dated May 22,1900.

Application filed October 19,1899. Serial No. 734,036. (No model.)

. To all 1071-0722, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JAMES GRIEVE DUDLEY, a citizen of the United States,residing in New York, (Brooklyn,) in the county of Kings and State ofNew York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Globe orShade Holders, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to holders for globes or shades to be used inconnection with gas or other fixtures, and has for its object theprovision of an article of this class by means of which a globe or shademay be removably held in place and which may be stamped out of sheetmetal and subsequentlyformed into proper shape to perform its functionwithout the aid of extraneous devices. Articles of this class asheretofore made involved expense and labor which the present inventionis designed to avoid, inasmuch as all separate elements-such, forinstance, as the usual setscrews and threaded bushings or holdingclampsriveted to the rings, &c.-are dispensedwith.

In practice the employment of said screws has proved to be a source ofgreat annoyance by virtue of the wear of the threads or by the loss ofthe screw, in which case the holder is rendered useless. is a well-knownfact that the pressure of the screws against the rim of the globe (ifthe latter be made of glass) is apt to be too great, and thereby causebreakage of the same. This objection is also present in that form ofglobeholder in which a series of downwardly-bent springs is formed fromor attached to the rim of the device, which springs are not accessiblewhen the globe is in place and require the aid of screws or otherextraneous tools to retract them when it is desired to remove saidglobe. Hence it is the particular object of this invention to provide aholder which will retain the globe firmly in proper position without inany way interfering with the expansion thereof and which at the sametime will render the removal or placing in position of said globe asimple and easy matter. In this connection it may be stated that inorder to carry my invention into practice I preferably form the holderof tough or flexible but nonresilient material, so that the retainingmembers or prongs may be bent into any desired position and will thereremain without any Furthermore, it-

tendency of returning to or resuming their a previous positions.Furthermore, in order to prevent any distortion of the rim of the deviceand to facilitate the bending of the re-- Figure 1 is a central sectionillustrating the manner in which a shade is held in place on my improvedholder. Fig. 2 is a similar View showing one of the prongs bent outwardto permit the removal of the shade; and Figs. 3 to 5, inclusive, aredetail views of a holder constructed in accordance with my invention,Fig. 3 being a plan view, Fig. 4 a section on line 4 4, Fig. 3, and Fig.5 a perspective view thereof.

Similar characters of reference designate like parts in all the figuresof the drawings.

In the drawings, 10 designates a plate having an aperture 11 forpermitting the passage of a burner, (not shown,) to which it may besecured in the usual manner. Openings or apertures 12 are provided inthe plate 10 for supplying the necessary amount of air to the burnerwhen lighted, and said plate has a peripheral flange 13, which serves toretain the globe or shade 14. in place thereon. The plate 10 is providedwith a series of prongs 15, preferably formedintegrally therewith, andeach of said prongs has a punched-out inwardly-bent portion or lip 16,the free end of which engages the usual neck let of the globe or shade,as shown in Fig. 1.

As shown in Figs. 3 to 5, the flange 13 is cut away at 13' adjacent tothe side edges of each of the prongs 15, whereby clearance is provided,and any one of the prongs'may be bent back and forth withoutinterference with said flange. Each retaining-lip 16 of the prongs 15is, asabove stated, punched out of, and therefore formed integrallywith, the prong, and while these retaining-lips are also practicallyrigid, yet, as is obvious, they will yield or give sufficiently toaccommodate the expansion of the globe.

In operation the device is first secured to the gas or other fixture inthe usual manner,- and one of the prongs is bent outward to the positionshown, for example, in Figs. 2 to 5,

inclusive. The globe or shade is then. place'di' I upon plate 1 0 andits flange 14. is insertedj beneath two of the lips 16. 15, with itsretaining-lip, is then bent upward by hand and serves, in connectionwith the other prongs and their retaining-lips, to, securely retain saidglobe upon the plate-10.

By making the prongs 15 of flexible non-resilient material amuch betterresult is ac- The third prong 2.. A device. for retainingglobes'orshades imposition upon, their fixtures; consisting of a supporting-platehaving a series of flexible non resilient prongs located ,at intervalsthereon, said prongs having lips formed inv.tegrally, therewith,thefreeends of which are i normally in position to engage the neck portion' of the globe or shade. 3 Adeviceof the class specifiedconsistcomplished than when said prongs are composed of resilient orspring-like material and the pressure of the lips can be readilyregulated upon the globe. 1 Eurthermordjn case of expansion of said globethe lips 16 will give .or yield sufficiently to prevent breakage of thesame, while at the same time retaining their'fullihold-ing power.

When it isdesired to remove, the globefor cleansing-mother purposes,.oneof the prongs.

115 is bent outward, and it retainsits set posi- 1 tion until a newglobe is again placed upon theplate 110, when saidfprong isbent upward,

retaining its upward set position in. the same manner to carry-its lip.16 against the globe. Having described my invention, I claim? 1.' A,device for retaining globes or shades i'n position upon their fixtures,consisting of asupporti ng-plataand a series of flexible non.-

resilient prongs havinglipsnormallyin position. to. engage the globe.

E in}; of a supporting-plate having a flange, and a series of prongseach separated by spaces @at its sides from: said flange, said prongscar- 5 rying devices for engaging a globe or shade.

4. A'device of the'elass specified, consistingof a plate having aperipheral flange, and

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fa series of prongsv rising from said plate, and

